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Chrome Does Have a Caps-Lock Key After All

Posted by timothy on from the who-on-earth-wants-one? dept.

Meshach writes "Amidst all the angst about Google taking away the caps lock key from Chrome it now appears that is not the case. With one small change any user can change the Modifier Key from a Search key to a Caps Lock key. Peace has been restored..." If there must be such a thing as a Caps Lock key on conventional keyboards, I wish it could be banished (along with the Insert/Delete pair) to a hard-to-fumble-upon switch on the bottom of the keyboard or laptop.

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  1. delete key? what? by citylivin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You dont use the delete key? how do you delete files? right click?!?

    You do know timothy, that backspace is not delete right?

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    1. Re:delete key? what? by jmorris42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      > IF you want to talk about useless keys, let's talk about the 'context menu key' that is located beside the right windows key.

      Useless keys are very valuable if you think outside the box. Map it to a compose key. Or use it as a special key for things like virtual machines instead of having to make do with chording a bunch of the buckybits. Of course if one is stuck on stupid (i.e. Windows) then there probably isn't much use for a useless key.

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    2. Re:delete key? what? by HeronBlademaster · · Score: 5, Informative

      Shift+Insert is sometimes easier than Ctrl+V for pasting stuff, but I can't think of any other reason I use the key.

    3. Re:delete key? what? by HeronBlademaster · · Score: 5, Informative

      If you're using a Linux terminal (or an ssh session in PuTTY or something), Ctrl+V doesn't paste (for the same reason that Ctrl+C does not copy), but Shift+Insert does.

    4. Re:delete key? what? by joaommp · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "If there must be such a thing as a Caps Lock key on conventional keyboards, I wish it could be banished (along with the Insert/Delete pair) to a hard-to-fumble-upon switch on the bottom of the keyboard or laptop."

      Sorry, I have never been so pissed of in my /. life and I've got to say: "timothy, you're an idiot".

      People that don't use the whole keyboard and key combos have no idea how much productivity they are throwing away. That's one of the thing I hate about mac keyboards and Apple's inability to understand that people have a limited number of fingers.

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  2. DUMBASS IDEA, EYE NEED CAPSLOCK. by DoninIN · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, really, I use it frequently. Not just to post inane l33tspeak to the interwebs either. I mean I really do use the thing as part of my daily life. I deal with a few hundred part numbers, many of them are long numbers, sprinkled with letters in there.. My left hand hit the caps lock and my right hand jumps to the numpad and I'm pecking out E5-FU7-Z009A001 etc for a few lines... Natural, easy. The way the keyboard has been used for... Well decades, getting rid of the caps lock is even dumber than adding "windows" keys and whatever other crap we added to go from 101 to 10-Whatever we're at now. Key combinations are more suited for those extra functions.